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Zep 3:1-20. Resumption of the denunciation of Jerusalem, as being unreformed by the punishment of other nations: After her chastisement Jehovah will interpose for her against her foes; His worship shall flourish in all lands, beginning at Jerusalem, where He shall be in the midst of His people, and shall make them a praise in all the earth.
filthy - Maurer translates from a different root, “rebellious,” “contumacious.” But the following term, “polluted,” refers rather to her inward moral filth, in spite of her outward ceremonial purity [Calvin]. Grotius says, the Hebrew is used of women who have prostituted their virtue. There is in the Hebrew Moreah; a play on the name Moriah, the hill on which the temple was built; implying the glaring contrast between their filthiness and the holiness of the worship on Moriah in which they professed to have a share.
oppressing - namely, the poor, weak, widows, orphans and strangers (Jer 22:3).